Katie Couric

Katie Couric, 2007

Katherine Anne Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American television and online journalist, presenter, producer, and author. She is founder of Katie Couric Media, a multimedia news and production company. She also publishes a daily newsletter, Wake Up Call. From 2013 to 2017, she was Yahoo's Global News Anchor. Couric has been a television host at all of the Big Three television networks in the United States, and in her early career she was an Assignment Editor for CNN. She worked for NBC News from 1989 to 2006, CBS News from 2006 to 2011, and ABC News from 2011 to 2014.

Quotes

• The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying ‘we’ when referring to the United States and, even the ‘shock and awe’ of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable. And I remember feeling, when I was anchoring the ‘Today’ show, this inevitable march towards war and kind of feeling like, ‘Will anybody put the brakes on this?’ And is this really being properly challenged by the right people? And I think, at the time, anyone who questioned the administration was considered unpatriotic and it was a very difficult position to be in.
  • National Press club speech, September 25, 2007. [1]

• And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect, nothing is, and no one is — and that’s OK.
  • Graduation speech at Williams College, 2007 [2]

• The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades, bumps, and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested
  • Graduation speech at Williams College, 2007 [3]

• The person I enjoyed interviewing the most was Elmo from Sesame Street because he is so unpredictable and he is always eating my hair and my face.
  • In: "Katie Couric : Ask the expert" at powertolearn.com, accessed May 24, 2008.

External links

• Inspirational Quotes from Katie Couric's graduation speech Williams College, 2007